Student Poverty and Education

According to the National Center for Children Living in Poverty, about 15 million children in the United States today are living in poverty. Many of them are not getting the education that others in thriving cities and states are receiving.

Are poorer students getting less than stellar education?

It has been reported that in lower income neighborhoods, less privileged students receive less education due to being assigned underachieving teachers with lower expectations all around. Oftentimes, lower-income school districts do no receive their fare share and are just struggling to get the basic supplies. Funding to low-income schools has been dwindling since 2010 and more than a few states have cut pre-K educational per student funding in recent years and as a result are seeing lower enrollment numbers. Extremely poor school districts in struggling cities are forced to pull funds from other areas which further worsens the problem.

Another aspect that poorer students are faced with is the lack of funds to put towards field trips and after school or sport activities. Consider how much being exposed to new places and people have taught you things you otherwise would not have seen, touched, observed?

But the economy is improving

As the economy improves, school districts are still feeling tugs at their purse strings. Make no mistake about it, the economy is doing better, so why not put more focus on fixing our impoverished school districts and provide everyone the quality education they deserve?

If we truly want educational technology to take root in schools and finally live up to the promise we've been expecting for more than a decade, schools need to develop a cadre of well-trained tech instructional coaches.

A massive international analysis finds more screen time is associated with a lower sense of well-being among teenagers, but the effects are too small to require policy changes, according to a study in the journal Nature Human Behavior.